/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I'm a cable technician and I'm really starting to hate it ever since new metrics were introduced. I've been looking at other career paths.

I work as a locksmith, been doing it a few months now. Coming from a shipping warehouse job, locksmithing is cake physical. Picking an impressioning locks are the "hardest" part for far. The other stuff you just need to learn the tricks to do them quickly.

Accountant working for a company. Going to open my own bookkeeping place. Basically at a desk all day.

i am what one would call a gas man, i sell propane but not accessories, i will die from a rage heart attack some wintery day in the future

coder / sysadmin. Been doing it forever and I'm pretty fucking bored of it, even if I get to work from home.

Commercial/Industrial electrician. I enjoy it, but sometimes you gotta chase work.

Car mechanic, it's funny to see what some faggots drive and have in there car's

>>1530331
i've been considering joining the electricians union here and starting an apprenticeship. A lot of my time in a/v is doing actual installs and pulling cable, which I actually like, but doing service calls and PM visits really blows. My two realistic options right now are to go down the union electrician path so I get more time on actual construction sites, or try to get my company to send me to a/v programming training and try to work towards getting paid to program. I honestly am a little scared that electrician work is a lot harder than what I do now but I'm really not sure.

>>1530247
Knipex social media relations.

Pay is meh, but the perks are great.

>>1530247

>>1530761
>Knipex social media relations.

...

oh btw, I've invoiced you twice for the annotation job. No need to contact me further as I have retained an attorney at the law offices of Goldberger, Shweinestein and Big Tony to handle this offense.

>>1530303
This is what I do now. Co-own the firm, but I hate it. Gave my notice and planning to go into a trade. Fuck being at a desk all day.

>>1530648
Any good stories?
I feel bad then I have to drop my car off and it's dirty, but I suspect it's nothing compared to ithers

>>1530247
Licensed plumber Illinois. Reading for anything but information is illogical.
I’m a diy kinda guy. Don’t read fiction.
DIY is work safe for the most part. Don’t want porn. Trying to live the marriage life, be a good lover and watch my anime

>>1530772
based

>>1531002
don't understand your post, but nice man, i'm in chicago

>>1531020
>>1531002
Fuck that state. Good luck with Toni.

>>1530278
Saw that coming years ago. Metrics are getting in the way of craftsmanship.

Construction all went to contractors so that was no exit from the customers and metrics. Network is a route many take. I went to Audit and became Internal Affairs and Anti Theft. Enjoyed that for a decade.

Currently in supply chain. Pay aint as good as tech but the work:life ratio is more to my liking.

>>1530247
Any rretard like me can jump in equipment. You'll get paid descent, not work hard as much as most laborers, and should develop a skill you can use until the robots take over.

>tfw they already have autonomous haul trucks...

>>1530648
>come at me bro

You wot???

>>1530761
Ffs...

>>1530778
Highly suggest welding. 9 months at school and build a welding truck, get a camper, make six figures until you descide what to go back for

>>1530783
Not him but i have been in cars like knee high in sunflower seeds. Cars so fucking nasty when you open the door in 100° heat. Tell them to fucking clean it first. People like that hardly pay anyway. My blazer has been missing and backfiring on a new motor because i dont want to put fuel injectors in it...

>>1531035
>>1531020

Especially chicago. Ive been all over the lower 48 in most cities and slums.

Chicago is the only place on earth i wont ever be back to.

>>1530247
On scale from 1 to 10, how cucked fablab manager is?

>>1532065
The city itself is nice if you stay in the Loop or the north side near the lake, but the politicians fucked that place up so bad. Seriously if they had kept the animals in their Cabrini Green cage, that decision alone would change the city.

Even the worst parts of Miami are nothing compared to the West Side of Chicago. I have never seen 300 nogs in a park at 2am on a Wednesday night just hanging out anywhere but Chicago.

>>1532084
Yup. Being a truck driver puts you in or next door to the fucking ghetto in the industrial park. Between the fucking southside faggotry and mutherfuckers jumping on your truck in traffic i swear.

I design houses for pseudo-rich people.

>>1532090
And all the viaducts under the train tracks. One of my buddies used to live right next to a low bridge on North Ave I believe and every other day he would be snapping pics of a fucked up dry van. It was just like that “11 foot 6” youtube video.

Used to work in an auto parts store but I couldn't stand dealing with morons all day, so I quit and am sitting on my ass. Most customers who came in weren't smart enough to buy an auto part, much less install it on a vehicle.

Women who came in were the worst, they don't know shit, except what their moron boyfriend told them about cars, which is always wrong, but they have 100% confidence in them and act like you're the idiot for giving them the right information.

Still remember this one bitch:

>Hey last week you sold me an air filter and it's the wrong one! I know I told you it's a 2008 and on the receipt it says you looked up a 2007!
>Me: Oh...well let me look here, uh, says it should be the same filter for a 2007 or a 2008
>her: Oh....well i know for a fact I told you a 2008!
>Me: Ok...but it's the same filter.
>Her: Well, I know for a fact I told you 2008. But anyways, I need one for a 2014.

>>1532084
i live on the southside senpai it's honestly way better than north

>>1532093
how much goes into that besides what's shown there? I used to be really into drafting and autocad, and if the job is mostly 3d modelling and cad I could 100% do that

>>1532093
>cuck shed on roof

>>1530772
fuck it i'll dump some shit

>>1530761
>based knipex shill
keke

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>>1532093
what the fuck is that crows nest at the top

>>1532093
>pseudo-rich people
So, they're not really rich?

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>>1532379

I fix copiers/printers at customer's offices. I got that job because I can't stand working in the same place all day, the office politics did my head in.

>>1532380

>>1532383
last 1 for now

>>1532385
>>1532383
Do you own or lease the crops?
If you lease, may I ask how much per acre? I may want to lease my land out and am curious what kind of price that could go for.

>>1532406
Mostly own. Renting/leasing really depends on the area, soil type and quality. Good productive ground with good drainage can go anywhere from $200-400 per acre. Some have in ground irrigation which really jumps up the price. Again it really varies depending on the area tho. Lighter sand tends to be $100-250 maybe sometimes hitting $300.

Field shape, and size also affect value as does hills, rocks, etc. You wouldn’t think shape would matter much but these days with efficiency being so important many are willing to pay a premium for nice square fields. Larger farms are also less interested in small fields because they can be hassle with with the large equipment used today and the time it takes to move and set up that equipment. That said if the field is near land they already have they will be more interested. Field accessibility can also affect value. I’ve turned down some great land simply because it was a pain in the ass to get to like bad hills, landlocked etc

>>1532362
Far south is straight, but all of Indiana fucking sucks so I hope you’re not too close.

>>1532381
This is the only thing that keeps me sane at my job. 12 hours running around different places feels like 6-7 hours staring at the clock from your cubicle. And I go crazy sitting around the office all day because of the politics and drama and then some mid level manager from a totally different department wants to complain about some petty shit our guys did while his guys are all lazy as fuck staring at their phones while they eat Burger King.

I do home appliance repair. It’s fun if you like puzzles and can put up with the occasional annoying as shit person.. also a good excuse to tax deduct your tool collection

>>1530247
HVAC helper at the moment, I went from a shelf stocker to working at an airport learning HVAC. It's a badass job and world's different then putting shit on shelves. My usual day consists of 2 hour long breaks and changing out bearings or replacing belts in AHUs

>>1530278
What I've seen is you just need to move areas for a boss that isnt so hung up on the metrics

>>1532417
Alright thanks

>>1530648
their* cars*
illiterate faggot

>>1532463
These are the people who crossthread your oil drain plug and torque your lugnuts to 400ft-lbs.

>>1532467
Hate to say it folks. But Bepis is right.

>>1532373
Deer stand yo!

Watch tv and shitpost in my underwear. Gamecam beeps and monitor beside me flashes. Deer. Stand up, shoot through the screen, prep it, start deer jerky while the rest is on the treager. Continue tv and shitpost

>>1532106
Kek. My company lost like 44,000 pound reefer with individually sliced sandwich cheese.

Mutherfuckers stole the trailer and 12 hours later it ended up found. Empty. With no reefer, and no fuel tank.

>tfw some random ghetto faggot has an entire house full of sandwich cheese and a room temp of like 40 degrees in summer.

Cannot stop picturing that shit and laughing

Commercial electrician, 13 years in the trade, been a foreman most of the time for the last 8 years

>>1532368
>under the powerline
now thats a fuckup

get yourself a gas leaf blower and clean the engine after every workday, those aircooled ones get hawt

we almost burned our combine this year and last year

>>1532632
Jesus. Worst I ever had was some nigglett high school kids steal a case of Mountain Dew from my trailer.

Used to be way more sketchy when we dealt with cash. The corner stores in the hood would always pay in cash and they would pay in all small bills. So you gotta walk past 50 nogs chilling outside while carrying $1000 in ones and fives. But the only real robbery I remember from that time was an ex employee who stole a key to the safe, he found the truck parked at a store while the driver wasn’t in it and he opened up the safe and stole everything. But another guy from our company happened to be helping that driver and saw the ex employee there and was keeping an eye on him so his ass got turned in and arrested.

>>1532373

Deer stand. People do that all the time now. I've known several people who built new houses and incorporated a deer stand into it.

Seems dumb to me too, but w/e.

>>1532467
>>1532626
What did the guy say?

>>1530247
police officer for 7 years in a few months. I've got some great friends working with me, and I'm on my feet. feels good

>>1532877
He was trying to teach this guy some grammar so maybe one day he can get his GED and will be able to read the instructions that came with his torque bars >>1530648

>>1532902
I've never seen someone unironically use them outside of tech school. What he say? Uga duga till it stops?

>>1532904
No. He corrected anon on his misuse of “there” and I’m not sure why it got deleted.

Anyway I should stay on topic because maybe that’s why the post got deleted. It may be Tuesday, but every day using my Knipex(tm) tools feels like a Sunday. I know The Lord doesn’t want us to work on Sundays, but it never feels like work when I have a Knipex(tm) Cobra(tm) in my hand. The quality and craftsmanship put into Knipex(tm) tools such as the Knipex(tm) Pliers Wrench(tm) are second to none.

If you are ready to stop working and start succeeding, you can put down those blue handle tools and find a wide selection of Knipex(tm) at your favorite online tool retailer and even at select brick and mortar home improvement stores.

>>1532655
That was a neighbour but yeah it melted all the insulation off those power lines. Took that pic from about 200ft away and could still feel the heat.

Chopper bearing started the fire. Operator saw the alarm go off and jumped out to check but as soon as he poked his head under he saw nothing but flames. Not exactly sure what model but it was a newer machine. I think they managed to salvage the head

>>1532364
Based

>>1530278
what do you mean by new metrics? I don't know much about cable techs

>>1532422
i'm in bridgeport

Residential solar service/repair
5 years. Pays the bills. I get to drive around a lot. Roof isn't too bad most days and it isn't an everyday thing like it was on installations.

>>1530247
Mechanic/autoglass tech for 8 years for my dad. If he didn't hire my jailbird older brother for me to train id love the job, least I did until he hired him.
Dude won't do fuck all when it comes to maintaining the shop, won't even put tools away or sweep up. Had to lock my box up because shit kept going missing in his chaos.
So now I do all of that and my dad's dumbass can't tell he's paying me twice as much as him to sweep the shop, remove broken bolts, occasionally weld exhaust and fix all the fuck ups he makes on anything from intake jobs to brakes.

I'm getting out asap

>>1530247
Chemical Manufacturing.

It pays the bills, that's all I can really say.

i buy and sell trash

>>1533414

I used to work at the apple store too.

I work as a image processor for a newspaper

>>1533419
kek

Structural engineer.

Looking forward to getting some site-based work soon so I can get away from the desk for a while.

ASMR Youtuber (male). I definitely make more than I would using my shitty psychology degree, and luckily I have no college debt.

Maintenance tech at a steel foundry. Pay is low as I'm young and pretty inexperienced when it comes to GM but they needed someone with machining experience so I got the job.
>tfw perfect fit and get to shoot the crap with buncha guys double my age all day

Software package implementation consultant. If you can deal with projects generally being run like shit while still trying to do the right thing, it can be a good gig.

>>1533656
Is the steel industry really as gay as The Simpsons say it is? More or less gay than the Navy?

>>1533118
Deer stand /10 man

>>1532877

Maintenance guy at a assisted living / retirement home. Can say this is the first job I actually like going to.

>>1533972
Damn, I would like to do something like this. Or like the handyman guys who work at apartment complexes. And if the job it too big, I tell the owners we gotta call a plumber or electrician. Loose doorknob? I got that!

What does it pay though? Wouldn’t want to deal with it for <$20 an hour.

>>1530761
K E K

>>1533972
Never leave then. I had like 25 jobs and this will be my last one. I like it most and i still fucking hate coming to work and want to beat the everliving fuck out of 2 of my like 45 bosses.

I write code for a government contractor. The salary and benefits are great but I wish I could spend more time doing physical things outside. Hopefully my transition to the consulting stuff in the company will be soon.

I'm a Wastewater plant operator. Mainly monitor, start/stop equipment and open/close valves on the computer. Occasionally hose down dirty tanks and spills, easy work for sure. Great crew basically a big hang out all day and the pay is amazing.

>>1532374
Some are actually rich, but most just have really good credit.

>>1532373
It's a fairly common thing to have roof decks on beach houses.

>>1532373
It's a spiral staircase shaft that leads up to the deck on the roof like in this pic

>>1532363
The software does a good deal of the 3D work automatically while you're laying out the floor plan and you just have to tweak things like windows, doors, roof planes, materials, ceiling heights, etc.

Hotel Maintenance.
Hours are great, job is chill, co-workers are chill, managers are chill, learned alot.
Pay is pretty shit though.

$14/h, Mariott.

>>1534031
>windows
eugh

>>1534055
>job is chill, co-workers are chill, managers are chill,

$14 is about your level. maybe a bit high, to be honest.

>>1534059
No clue what you mean

>>1533967
>chrome
install clover dev

>>1534031
is that winxp?

>>1534125
I just tried to. Fucking thing is broke or i am stupid. Probably both....

>>1534147
is 4chan not there by default?
also its 4chan(nel).org

>>1534107
He's probably one of those linux-obsessed spergs.

I'm a research scientist at a very large US university.

>>1534174
I’m a senior fellow at the top university in the western hemisphere.

>>1534178
OK. What institution? I'm at Cal.

>>1534171
Haha yup you're probably right.

>>1532373
>fucking bitches in the hot tub on the 4th story deck of your 2 million dollar beach house

pleb

>>1534131
It's some version of Windows. Don't care enough to know which one

>>1534171
>running insecure, unstable, and obsolete software on critical infrastructure

It should bother pretty much everyone

>>1534204
Oh fuck man you're right! I'm furious! I'll make sure to bring it up to the board of directors. I didn't know I can make turning on shit pumps much more efficient by getting rid of windows. Thank you

>>1532629
This actually sounds like a great setup for when I retire

>>1530247
What kind of a/v?

I'm a boat builder.

>>1532093
What a terrible kitchen layout.

>>1534247
Oh it is

>>1534152
Mutherfucker. I did try copy paste tho. I got nothing man. Its almost as gay as /b

I'm a shipchandler in south america, we supply merchant vessels and cruises of whatever they need. Its quite straight forward, although its a pain in the ass to source some of the items they require.because, south america doesnt have such a wide selection of goods, mostly tools are the products we struggle the most, the pay is good and i assume it must be.way easier in the states.

>>1534287
what
4chan.org
werks on my machine
make sure to enable thread watcher and the dark theme for the ultimate experience
also the captcha isnt cancerous

>>1534179
The best one.

>>1534294
One of my old customers runs a business that exports all sorts of random shit to South American and the Caribbean. He does some good revenue out of that place filling up a couple shipping containers a day. It’s mostly food and drinks but there’s random shit too like if people want their favorite Quilted Northern TP, he will send a pallet of it. It’s a lot of high end resorts ordering and people will pay good money to have their favorite American chips and beer.

>>1534007
I don't make anything near 20 but I also had no experience and live in the midwest so cost of living is low. The residents live in their own little 1 or 2 bed apartments and once they die or move to a nursing home or hospice we will redo the rooms. Usually laying floor, carpet new counter top etc. Besides that we mow about 20 acres.

Analyst/Dev at a computer security firm

>>1532093
Lol location?

https<insert your colon here>//<insert yer dubyadubyadubya here>.google.com/maps/place/Inlet+Isle+Ln,+West+Ocean+City,+MD+21842/@38.3329122,-75.0976176,182m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b929b1e5134289:0x77a34c31dfc6446e!8m2!3d38.3342493!4d-75.101102

>>1534357
That looks pretty cozy.
My dad had a few rental properties on the side growing up with his brothers; I'd tag along and learn what I could. Always thought I'd end up doing property maintenance, but live kinda takes you on whatever path you let it take her.

>>1534227
>efficiency
You obviously dont understand the implications of having any critical infrastructure using legacy software that isnt scalable, "shit pumps" or not.

It actually is something that needs to be brought up to the board of directors, hopefully you have an emergency plan in case of hardware or software failure. Its not like running a unix or unix like system. I dont think you understand how royally fucked you will be and how much critical downtime you will actually have.

And this isnt anything special or new, its all around the united states and its a huge problem.

>>1533965
no it's just filled with boomers and dippers with deteriorating teeth
less gay than the navy

>>1534031
Is the pay greater than 23 an hour? I'm a pharma plant operator and have considered some career alternatives over the last few months.

>>1534424
You found the super secret island, congratulations.

>>1534468
Spoken like a true leader of our generation. You must be a very important part of society and superior to everyone thank you for all you do sir. I'm at one of the largest water districts in California, plants been running for 60+ years without any violations. If I had to guess emergency plan it would be to run everything at the local control panels just like it was run for years before the plant had any type of remote operation system.

>>1534530
Hell yeah man a trainee starts at $34/hour. A few years of training to become a journeyman and your looking at $52/hour to $60+ an hour for working graveyard shift. But I must say I have looked at the pay for other treatment plants and alot of the pay isn't as good just gotta look around. I'm in California, plants owned by the local government, and we're unionized so all that together gives us the great pay/benefits.

>>1534699
>Spoken like a true leader of our generation. You must be a very important part of society and superior to everyone thank you for all you do sir.

No need to take it personally anon, this is a problem all across the USA not just your plant. This isnt your fault afterall.

>I'm at one of the largest water districts in California, plants been running for 60+ years without any violations

Ah, its always worked so why fix it right?
Maybe the plans to replace the computer system from 1986 that uses 5 inch floppy drives to control the hoover damn is a waste of time and money? Though funding for that keeps getting siphoned away anyways.

Its the same exact deal, except worse because windows doesnt age like older systems did.

> If I had to guess emergency plan it would be to run everything at the local control panels just like it was run for years before the plant had any type of remote operation system.

Sounds reassuring that you have no fucking clue what the emergency plan for severe hardware failure is. Im guessing you wouldnt be able to manually run them either?

>>1534748
Not personal at all man slight entertainment for me while I'm sitting here staring at my obsolete DCS. Yes everything does work fine but your right about the old system tho most new technology we get needs a shit ton of rewiring and re coding and I don't know what else(not sure exactly what since it's not my area of expertise)I'm assuming they don't feel like using millions of taxpayer money to change something that's working at the moment maybe in the future who knows. Not sure what you mean by severe hardware our pumps are maintained pretty well. And everything runs manually like I said this plant was running years before any remote operating system all you gotta do is physically walk over to the equipment, press the start button. Let me ask you though are you active in your community and attend city council meeting to try and better society? Or do you just like to educate all the anons of 4chan?

>>1534319

WAIT.

I can go to the Caribbean islands and have keystone light on the beach????


FUCK YES

>>1534299
Thanks anon. I got a pass. Captcha triggers me so fucking hard.

>>1530247
Developer in a niche domain. It pays the bills but it's getting to the stage where the effort vs reward is no longer working out, because I live in an expensive part of the country and can barely afford anything other than a shoebox, and if I move to the kind of house I want I'll end up spending everything on mortgage payments and have nothing to retire with, so would then have to sell the house anyway. Want to cash in my chips and move somewhere rural with no degeneracy and no mortgage, but there's fuck all work out in the styx and my gf is locked to this part of the country by her job. 'Kin annoying right now.

Work on an assembly line at Ford Flat Rock. My dream job is to be the Social Media Manager for Porin Ässät.

>>1534794
Kek. Why would you even drink that in the US if it were the cheapest thing on the shelf? Get some Presidente or whatever the hell they’re drinking on that island.

>>1534824
>if it were the cheapest thing on the shelf?

I'm sorry sir, not meaning to butt in, but did you just say "cheapest thing on the shelf"?

NightTrain. damn good stuff. Puts Thunderbird to shame.

Finish carpenter and artist. I dunno, I’m thinking about going to school to do drafting,seems more of marriage of those two worlds.

>>1534840
>I’m thinking about going to school to do drafting,seems more of marriage of those two worlds.

It's all CAD these days, hardly art. I'd stick with the carpentry if you have a name and can get work that is challenging and rewarding. Find one or more good architects who like to do new things with wood, preferably ones about your age so they don't die off or retire on you.

>>1534829
Of course you can get more bang for your buck with some Wild Irish rose, but you shouldn’t be drinking 30 racks of frat boy beer while on vacation.

>>1534829
>niggerdrink

>>1534866
Oh fuck you. Im drinking half way accross the country 4th of july fucking off amd shitposting whike road trippi g with like 30 of my best friends to texas. Then im drinking beer on the beach. Then im nursing bloody marrys and sleeping till home.

>>1534840
>>1534846

This. You got the only descent job in construction man. Turn it into a business and retire

>>1534824
Fuck that. Idgaf if stones were 100 bucks a case. Im drinking it

>>1534877
So why not splurge and get some PBR?

>>1534795
please dont give money to gookmoot
install 4chanx and force noscript captcha or the captcha buster addon on desktop
clover dev on mobile

just dont give the jew money
t.used to own a pass

>>1534965
>tfw mostly shitpost on mobile
>a little before Mook took over, I start getting IP range bans so I buy the pass
>a month later, IP bans are gone
>no bans for 12 months, then all of a sudden I start getting IP range bans again
>pass just expired, gotta re-up
>bans disappear a month later
>2007+11, coming up on November-December, start seeing the fucking IP range bans again
>pass is abour to expire
This is the 3rd year in a row and it always happens around Nov-Dec and only lasts for a month. I’m almost certain it’s a moneygrab to get phoneposters to pay $20.

I was getting so many /g/ and /v/ bans from the cell IPs that I wrote to the admins that they should require passes for phoneposters instead of those inconsistent range bans, and then they could ban the pass instead of the IP and all of these shitposting little kids would have to ask their parents for another $20 whenever they call somebody a nigger on /g/.

>>1535004
>that I wrote to the admins

this is not what I want to hear bby

1st mate on offshore vessel. Basically I press all the buttons and when something stops working I just tell the engineers and they go fix it. When at home I have the entire days for my own DIY projects.

Sometimes I wish I had chosen to work as the marine engineer, but when I visit the hot and noisy engine room I am reminded of the luxuries of AC.

People sometimes tell me how they could never imagine being away from home for 4-8 weeks, but having tried a job with normal working hours on land I wonder how people can tolerate commuting for such a long time in terrible traffic.

>>1535010
Well, I’m sure nobody read it. tl;dr

It was a suggestion in my attempt to get a mobile IP ban lifted because every single fucking one was b& from kids shitposting on /v/.

>>1535004
Just turn your data off and on. Might have to do it a couple times.

>>1534249
I'm an installation technician. Basically I install video conferencing/presentation systems in conference rooms and schools mostly. Lot's of mounting TV's, projectors, screens, cameras etc, and a lot of running cable, mostly cat6. I also do service stuff, so showing up to a/v systems where something isn't working and trying to fix it.

There's a lot of programming that goes on too that I'm trying to get into. Most of the equipment has a cable running to a processor made by Crestron, Extron, or AMX, and there's a touch screen interface for the client to interact with. So it all the ins/outs etc need to be programmed. I've only dived into it a little bit, since I can't really do it on my own time without equipment, but It looks piss-easy and with the exception of AMX, it's all GUI based programming. This-goes-there type of stuff. Pays a lot more, but I need my company to invest and send me to training or else I'll be stuck doing installs forever

>>1535129
Yeah but you have to shut it off for like 10-15min or more sometimes. And then it got so bad that I would turn it back on and end up with a different ban from /v/ or /g/. Plus I don’t like turning the phone off at work if somebody is trying to blow my phone off and doesn’t have the number for my second phone.

marine mechanic, it pays the bills,

fun work, always something new, lots of troubleshooting,

work is in high demand

>>1532422

Indiana is taking Illinoisans like europe is taking in refugees, and indiana is the terrible state. fucking right hope your kidding ( or trying to keep a secret safe)

>>1532912
God... why are you such a Nigger.

>>1535168
when it's bad like that i just don't bother trying to post. a quick reset generally works tho. a couple years ago it was bad enough that i could barely ever post at home. seemed like every ip my isp used was banned. of course they were pretty much always /v/ bans too, that board is pure fucking cancer

>>1535262
That’s straight because anything off-highway hasn’t been nearly as cucked by Uncle Sam so you’re actually working on engineering and not fucking regulations.

>>1535263
Those are the people who still want to keep their job in IL but don’t want to pay a property tax that costs more than their mortgage.

People are leaving IL to go anywhere but IL and other commie shitholes like NY. So many people dipped to Florida like me, but they just raised out sales tax to 7% and I’m pissed, but then I realize it’s still way better than Crook County. Lots of people are going to TN, especially Nashville. A handful headed west to Arizona and Nevada as well.

>>1535332
I'm black and I don't use Knipex.

>>1535374
yeah allot of the stuff we work on is 40 or 50 years old,

most people choose to rebuild their 40 year old motors once knowing they will last another 40 years, the new crap doesnt last a decade,

the newer carbureted engines we actually have to drill out a brass cap off the mixture screws as they are permanently set lean as fuck from the factory to pass emissions, shit doesnt last when run like that,

you should see our test tank after we have run an 80hp merc from the 60s,. basically a total loss oiling system the amount of unburnt oil spewed into the water,

>>1535387
Well, i mean... i dont either but that's just because i am a mutant.

Knipex are GOAT because descent quality and spring action handles for normies.

I just snao all but the bigest in half and i made my own that are almost as good and not 600 bucks

>>1530247
Weird cable tech/electritian/CCTV tech mashup. Legally I'm not even allowed to plug anything in the outlet, but no one cares.

Anyone hiring?

Work from home?

Not a a cam whore, nothing in my butt...
Just a paycheck please.

>>1532629
I see a great opportunity here. Shoot the deer and have the grandkids recover it for you.

>>1530247
I do gun stuff on the side. No desire to get a type 07 yet so it's all AR/AK builds on existing receivers, basic repairs and troubleshooting, making grip panels occasionally, had a guy bring me one of those Star BM pistols to strip and re-rust blue. Turned out pretty damn nice, miles better than what it was when it came in.
It's not steady money but it's what I enjoy doing and it replenishes the beer fund while I'm in college.

I'm a code enforcement officer, but it's more of an inspector for a municipality. I go into unsecured vacant houses unarmed and by my self to do minimum housing inspections. It's incredible what you can find

I cut down hazard trees and do other forestry esque work for the govt. It's fun.

I’m a unionized Ironworker.
You know, the toughest tradesman.

I work retail, browse this board to learn valuable info and marvel at the hydraulic dildo thrusting machines and such you guys create.
In charge of seasonal, Christmas retail is no joke. Makes me want to go back to digging ditches on the side of the freeway for runoff control

>>1537726
Do you smoke Marlboro Reds and eat bologna and cheese sammies your wife packed while dangling your feet off a steel girder 700ft in the air with no safety restraints and yell “Hey baby! I bet you look good in the fall collection!” at bitches walking down the sidewalk below?

>>1538015
Unless you have your own store (store manager or higher corporate), that’s a dead end gig. Even with Amazon, so many retail stores were busting ass over the holidays because of the online ordering and how lots of companies are shipping from the store. I was in a few places where the employees in back boxing shit up for the UPS guy to take were moving more product than the actual floor staff.

Also I barely bought anything off a sales floor this year. If I ordered from a brick and mortar store, I would go online and just pick it up at the counter. Mid-November and I could order something online from Kohl’s at 10:30pm and pick it up at 11:15pm that night.

>>1538147
I'm aware of how dead end it is, trying to rise up eventually to corporate. I think I can, so many of these dumb kids and ex-cons they hire don't really give a shit about their job so I stand out

>>1538272
Go for it. I have seen some store managers in their late 20s early 30s. Those can be 6 figure jobs, especially with bonuses. Two issues with that- so many companies are slashing the labor so bad that store managers are stuck working 80hrs a week (CVS got so bad with this when they converted to CVS Health). And the 2nd is if you’re a good store manager, they want to keep you in the stores. The best managers often get moved around once a year so they can fix underperforming stores. Also the corporate gigs, the companies will often hire college kids before they hire people with years of experience in the company and that always pissed me off.

I always laugh when I see “Help Wanted” ads for retail jobs that mention “Flexible Hours!” as a perk of the job. This doesn’t mean flexible scheduling for the employees, it means the employees must be flexible and work whatever the store wants them to work.

heavy equipment mechanic/welder

i work on literally everything

graders, scrapers, rock trucks, hagglunds, snow cats, john deere tractors, mowers, balers, hay rakes, chip spreaders, oil trucks, runway brooms, d5 to d10 dozers, excavators, rubber tired backhoes, garbage trucks, pickups, kenworths, loaders, forklifts, compressors, hotsys, lowbeds, trombones, belly dumps, end dumps

Painter on the maintenance team for a property management company in Chicago. Non-union. Currently making 19/hr after ~1.5 years, full benefits. Most of what I handle is water damage after the maintenance techs fix any leaks, or the company hires out to fix the roofing or tuckpointing. If it's not that it's probably repairing crumbling plaster in older buildings, any kinda wall repair.

I don't do too bad for myself, I think. For the most part it's pretty low-stress, I enjoy the physical work that isn't backbreaking. I was kinda a softbody when I got here, drank too much, didn't know my ass from a hole in the ground, needed some structure. Sometimes I wonder if it's a little deadend, think about going back to school or learning a different trade to make some real money, but I ought not to complain. Most of the guys here look at it as a comfy place to retire, former union carpenters and general contractors who took a steady paycheck and the employer-healthcare-subsidy for their family.

Secretly I'm making more that a good number of the more-skilled, more-experienced, been-here-longer and worked-a-lot-harder folks who just got hired on when the job market wasn't so tight.

>>1540609 here
I figure I should mention, 24 years old and got hired on at 22, to give context. I'm not some retiree changing lightbulbs for a living and still managing to bitch about it.

>>1540609
Sounds like a comfy job. You know it's not going to last forever, right? Make sure you have a backup plan for when it's gone, take night classes so you can learn and hopefully get qualifications while you're still earning.

>>1541041
Yeah. When I got here I just wanted something to pay my bills with better than a retail job, something to feel more accomplished in as I try to fuck art students. That life feels less and less satisfying as the days go by, age is just a number but it For Real changes peoples' expectations of you, I'm feeling it.

I'm keeping living expenses low as possible and socking away all I can, I actually have some mid-low 5 figures set aside wondering what doors that might open in the mid-long term.

Everyone at the place who is older thinks the younger folk oughta be hungrier and working more side-jobs. Some of them are, as the days go by I feel less happy not being one of them. I'm at a bit of a loss for wider-perspective, but just today I was talking to some older folks who were looking to lay down roots in the Milwaukee metro, and I have friends in Michigan. Chicago definitely seems to, currently, have the surplus of work-needs-doing and more competitive wages, but it makes more and more sense to me why Illinois is no place to be laying down roots, buying buildings, or starting businesses. But there might be fertile ground nearby, with some 3-5 years' more accrual under my belt.

I'm scared that all this sounds like hot-air-all-talk-bullshit, but like I said, didn't know ass from hole in ground when I got here, it MAJORLY broadened my very-sheltered perspective just having got here, but I'm still at a bit of a loss for The Right Questions To Ask, though I have plenty of unburnt-wellkept bridges to people who would have answers when I figure them out. I think I've learned about all there is to learn passively at this job (they didn't teach me shit, but it was a whole new world to me). But my nights and weekends are mine, I have my savings, I'm using my healthcare, and smoking weed+watching netflix feels like a hollow life not worth pursuing.

Any perspective on absolutely anything would be appreciated. I'm feeding myself better but only growing hungrier.

I operate a hydraulic press brake, and do general labor in sheet metal fabrication.

I've only been there for a year, I helped run a CNC laser system, and moved to the press brake after our normal guy got fired. I've been on it about 3 months now. I don't particularly enjoy it, but I'm fucking mad, since I make less than 15 an hour, and that just really isn't enough for me to want to stay, even though it's a lot of opportunity for someone like me to learn a lot of things, especially being young and with no prior experience.

Also fuck NOVA.

I work as a water plant operator. Boring but I can shitpost at work get paid well for my age and great benefits.

>>1530293
Any other locksmiths? I tjought about this but I don't want to be on call.

I work in a ski repair shop in western mass, but I hate it. The people are cool, but the company is shit tier and the pay is garbage.

Auto parts supplier for shops, aiming to get on the tools with a possible apprenticeship at Holden. Mechanics is the most satisfying diy I've done yet, would want to specify in either engine rebuilds or auto sparky work.

>>1541691
hey man, what county? im getting a ba in env eng. the trainee exam is generally easy, right?

Fitter and Turner at the Mechanical Engineering department of a university. I make a lot of the projects and shit for students and researchers

>>1532904
>torque sticks
yes anon

run an engineering & fabrication firm that does most of its work on quarries and recycling plants.

pretty interesting at times but also pretty stressful

>>1532640
What does it take to go into that field? Education or apprenticeship wise?

>>1534704
How'd you get into that man? I'm in California too and remember researching waste water a few months ago and I got the impression that you either went to school for it or just tried your hardest to get someone to hire you to get your foot in the door.

>>1534704
How'd you get into that if you don't mind sharing? I remember researching how to get into the wastewater industry a couple of months ago and got the impression that you went to school for it or tried your best to get your foot in the door somehow. I could only find some online school shit if I recall correctly. I'm in California too by the way.

>>1530247
Middle School Computer Science Teacher. Only teach 3.5 of 8 hour day. Nice.

>>1534253
I'm a dock builder. We should rape the world.
t.Jeff

Chef at Wendy’s.

>>1544623
>"chef"

>>1535109
4-8 weeks at a time -- are you paid 24/7 the entire time you're aboard?

>>1544748
1 salary when on board
1 salary when home

(for example:
contract states: <<payment: 100 money (per month)>>
If I stay 1 month onboard, and I am paid 200 money.)

Effectively one month on board generates two paychecks. But the norm for filipinos and eastern europeans seems to be "x salary per month onboard".

Salary is set by tariffs, basically a minimum wage except that its made by the labor union instead of the government. Due to hard times in the maritimes (offshore at least), there is currently no paid overtime. Nominal workday is 12 hours.

Technically speaking I could demand payment for any overtime I do, forcing the company to pay me or take it to court and win. However, the pay is honestly more than good enough and there is a ton of qualified semen ready to replace me.


Are you asking if you should start in the maritimes? I don't know. If you are in the US, I've heard stories of mistreated greenhorns and disgusting hierarchies among american crew. But it's only stories. I've never worked with americans onboard.

>>1530247
Medical doctor

I cease existing for 40 hours a week.

Machine build. I make parts for various machines on an even bigger machine. Job is hard physical work but the co-workers are chill and the boss too.

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>>1530772
Serious anon, how do I become a farmer? It seems like the ultimate comfy life for someone who doesn't mind physical work.

>>1548889

Watch the old series "Green Acres". Anybody can learn to farm.

>>1548889
Agricultural college

>>1541665
Hope you manage to find something better dude

>>1548889
Work for a farmer and find out it sucks. CDL will get you hired on the spot.

Floor Covering/Laying

>>1532059
Get a job fixing the robots

>>1533299
I feel your pain anon. Nothing worse then a slob. Old job I had worked with a guy who literally left jobs half done and tools everywhere.
Boss liked him cause he was "a go getter" took me longer to find tool to do the job then the job itself. Fuck those people and not worth the pain in the ass honestly

>>1533972
Do old women hit on you all the time? Did a few odd jobs at a retirement home and Jesus. I am sure they could have "showed me a thing or 2"
But holy hell

>>1534031
Kek
I like all the cheat sheets hung up on wall. Work at combined cycle plant so I can relate

>>1534174
Research wot?

>>1534840
Stick with the carpentry
Get a good name for yourself and do like other anon said and team up
YFW you will probably be making more then anyone else you know and love your job

>>1535109
I miss offshore work anon
I was offshore BOP service tech for deep sea oil rigs.
Also miss the travel

>>1537699
Anyway to lighten the trigger pull on milspec ar trigger without fucking it up?

>>1537708
Any good stories?

>>1549399
I have dozens of Latin women in their 50s and 60s who are constantly hitting on me at work. This one a couple weeks ago told me I need to quit smoking because “You’re so beautiful and the world needs more beautiful people like you so you have to live long and make lots of beautiful babies!”

>>1549411
Old people are great, but a few of the old ladies I ran into I think legit wanted me to bang em. I'm talking full out sexual assault by them, unto me. And no innuendo they came straight out with it

>>1549412
Years ago I used to deliver pizzas and one time I had a delivery at this hotel and it was a bunch of fat ratchet black women having some party. I had some 45yo hood bitch grabbing at my junk as there’s a bunch of kids running in and out of the door from the adjoining room and I’m just like “I need to get the fuck out of here”. I remember this one kid who was maybe 9-10 years old just staring with his mouth open as the lady is motioning with her hand like she’s trying to jerk me off and the kid was so confused, as was I.

>>1534032
> pic

What makes pseudo-rich people suspend a fat dead fish (?) from an antique pulley in their atrium? Inquiring minds want to know.

>>1530247
I drive a semi. It's alright. Pays well enough. 70k a year, only owe about 6k in debt for the training.

>>1549539
does it talk?